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Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 2)

Click Here to listen Mormons do not believe that the Bible is the infallible repository for redemptive revelation. In their view it's the Book of Mormon that is the most correct of any book on earth. Not only so, but in Christianity Jesus is the self-existent Creator...

Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 1)

Click Here to listen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was birthed back in the 1800s by an alleged vision in which two celestial personages appeared to Joseph Smith and claimed that all existing churches were wrong, that all their creeds were an...

The First Born Over All Creation

Click Here to listen   I do an "Ask Hank" column in the Christian Research Journal, and in the current edition of the Journal I deal with the issue of how the eternal Son of God can at once be the firstborn over all creation and yet the eternal Creator of all...

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Mormons are not the only non-Christian cult. There are Jehovah's Witnesses who believe that Christianity died with the last of the apostles. They believe that Christianity was not resurrected until their founder, Charles Taze Russell, began organizing the Watchtower...

Is Polygamy Biblical?

Polygamy has been in the news as a result of Warren Jeffs and the child custody case that's become so prevalent in the news. As a result a lot of people are asking questions about polygamy, questions like "Is this not consistent with what the founder of the Mormons...

Benny Hinn/Kenneth Copeland/Todd Bentley

I get a lot of letters that come across my desk and some of them are letters from people who are just plain angry. Why are they angry? They don’t like what I’m saying about some of their favorite teachers. I recently got a letter from a man named William...

Do Works Contribute to or Confirm Salvation?

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 1 (2008). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...

Time for a Second Wind

This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 5 (2006). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the...

Worldview Awareness

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...

Selling The Soul of Christianity

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 4 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org...

Faith Behind the Fence: Religious Trends in US Prisons

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 6 (2004).   According to a May 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, by midyear 2003 there were more than 1.3 million persons in custody in state...

Muhammad: Prophet of God

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org With the publication of Robert Millett’s A Different Jesus,1 major...

The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008).   SYNOPSIS Critics and supporters agree that the veracity of Mormonism hinges on Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), the founder and first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ...

Book of Mormon Word Change

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008).   A recent word change to the introduction of the Book of Mormon has once again brought attention to the question regarding the historical...

Mormonism Defenders Accuse September Dawn of Smear Campaign

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 1 (2008).   Not since Mormon historian Juanita Brooks bravely penned her groundbreaking book The Mountain Meadows Massacre has so much attention been given...

Is the Book of Mormon Credible?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005).   “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is...

Who Died and Left You a Gospel?

Who Died and Left You a Gospel?

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 4 (2006).   Witnessing to Latter-day Saints (Mormons) can be challenging, since they often use the same words or phrases that Christians use, but...

2 Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...

Is Jesus Christ the Spirit Brother of Satan?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 2 (2008).   Chris Wallace: “What about Mitt Romney....is a Mormon a true Christian?” Joel Osteen: “Well, in my mind they are. Mitt Romney has said that he...

Was Min the True God of Joseph Smith, Jr.?

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org There are few better tests of Joseph...

Devout Mormon Mitt Romney Announces 2008 Run for President

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org After many months of hints and media speculation,...

A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org The advertisement for the book from Eerdmans includes this claim:...

LDS Apologetics and the Battle for Mormon History

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005).   SYNOPSIS Apologetics, historically, has not been a high priority for the leaders of the Mormon Church, but it has become more so in recent years. Thanks especially to the...

Mary Magdalene’s Modern Makeover

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number2 (2006).   Revisionist portraits of Jesus promulgated today by sources ranging from the Jesus Seminar to the New Age movement are receiving great attention;...

Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005).   “I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever!” (Rev.1:17–18).2 When Jesus came to...

Is Colossians 2:8 a Warning against Philosophy?

Is Colossians 2:8 a Warning against Philosophy?

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 3 (2006).   I teach at a Christian university that has a strong emphasis on defending the faith. Our commitment to missions, evangelism, and...

Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine

Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine

Listen to this article (36:15 min)This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 5 (2004). For further information on the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org...

Bible Versions (Part Two)

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005).   SYNOPSIS Christians who are serious about the Bible tend to gravitate toward a single version, which results in the tendency to identify versions that differ from their...

Bible Versions (Part One)

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005).   SYNOPSIS What makes a Bible version “good” or “bad” and how can we tell the difference? The rapid increase in the number of major English Bible versions over the past two...

Does Acts 2:38 Teach Baptismal Remission?

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 2 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   One controversial issue concerning salvation has been whether...

Loving the Trinity

This article first appeared in the Volume 21 / Number 4 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SUMMARY The Trinity should be the object of our love, for the doctrine expresses the very...

The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity

I. THERE IS ONE GOD One God: explicit statements OT: Deut. 4:35, 39: 32:39; 2 Sam. 22:32; Isa. 37:20; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9 NT: John 5:44; Rom. 3:30; 16:27; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19; Jude 25 None like God (in His...

Taming Bible “Discrepancies”

Taming Bible “Discrepancies”

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 2 (2001). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   With the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible Web site on the Internet and...

Are We Really Willing?

When professor Tatiana came to the Christian Research Institute on a January afternoon, she had one thing in mind: getting help for her people. Tatiana is a language instructor at Moscow State University, and a fairly new Christian. But even as God's love and peace...

The Masculine Journey of Promise Keepers

This article News Watch column first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 2 (Fall 1995). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   HERE’S A THREE-QUESTION QUIZ: Promise Keepers represents an effort of... ❑...

Welcome, Holy Spirit

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   Book review of Welcome, Holy Spirit Benny Hinn (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995) Just a few...

New Age Messiah Identified

Troy Lawrence, author of New Age Messiah Identified (Huntington House), is exposed as a fraud. According to an article by Eric Pement in Corner­stone magazine (vol. 20, no. 95), “Troy Lawrence” — an alias for Darrick Evenson — “has...

Mormon Filmmakers Seek Box-Office Blessings

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 2 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   The advertisement for The Other Side of Heaven appeared promising. “From...

Popular Mormon Apologetics — Staking Claims on Christian Ground

This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 4 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   A Summary Critique of Biblical Mormonism: Responding to Evangelical Criticism of LDS Theology...

Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine (Part 2)

This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 4 (2001).   In our previous installment on how Latter-day Saints (LDS) ascertain doctrine, we examined the supremacy of the teachings of the living prophets over...

Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine (Part 1)

This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 3 (2001).   A significant difficulty when witnessing to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is to determine what that individual...

Of Cities and Swords: The Impossible Task of Mormon Apologetics

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1 (Summer 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SUMMARY The Mormon organization FARMS is producing the most widely read and seemingly...